Careers and Jobs

Irish Jobs released postive job data and I noted that Galway was experiencing highest groths in job activity. It should be no surprise then that Cambus Medical announced the creation of 60 new jobs.

A medical device company in Spiddal, Co Galway, has said it will create 60 new jobs over the next three years bringing its workforce up to 85 people. Cambus Medical currently employs 25 people in Spiddal. Half of its current employees are third-level graduates. Cambus Medical has recently expanded its facility in the Baile an tSagairt Industrial Estate.

CV Writing, Job Search Support & Interview Coaching in Ireland

Irish Recruitment Social Networking site – Jobs Market, enables job seekers to publish their profile, and CV to all the Irish Employers. There is also a blogging facility to enable job seekers to market themselves, publish their achievements and attract employers. Employers can connect with the candidates they are interested in, and interact directly. The whole site is 100% free to use for both job seekers and employers.

BIG FISH JOBS

One politician mentioned that there were signs of “green shoots” the other day. Possibly a bit early to be saying that BUT this is great news. New jobs for Cork!!

Cork City will get up to 100 new jobs with the announcement by US online games company, Big Fish Games. These jobs will be created over the next three years. (They always seem to be created over three years)

Big Fish Games is a US company based in Seattle and it employs about 350 staff developing and publishing what the industry call ‘casual’ games for mobile devices and computers. Casual because they don’t need skill. (it sounds like my niche).

IDA Ireland seems to be behind the scheme so good work again guys and gals. Big Fish Games plans to open its European Headquarters at Mahon in Cork City, and to employ up to 100 people there in the next three years.

By all reports recruitment for these jobs has started!!!

Customer support and games testing recruitment is understood to have already started. Website below.

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Big Fish Games Website

So we still are attractive to Inward Foreign Investment!!

Social networking website Facebook announced that it will to create 70 new jobs with its decision to establish its international headquarters in the city of Dublin. I guess the guys from Ebay and Google have told them about the Guinness and the nightlife.

The headquarters will have a wide range of roles – online technical, operations and sales to support users in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Facebook if you have not heard of it is quite a big hit at the minute and has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. There will be a big demand for these roles so get ahead of the game.

SIEMENS CREATES 60 NEW JOBS IN CORK

Siemens has announced the creation of 60 new high-tech jobs in Cork with the news that it is expanding its IT Solutions and Services Division. These new jobs will bring the total employed in Cork to 330. Guess it seems that Ireland is an exception for the company as they are shedding over 12,000 jobs globally.

TYPETEC CREATES 15 NEW JOBS IN DUBLIN

IT managed services company Typetec has announced that it will be creating 15 new jobs in Dublin as they plan to expand their product range. Based in D12 the company currently has a headcount of 52.

ON SEMICONDUCTOR CREATES 49 NEW JOBS IN SHANNON

Shannon has witness a bad run of negative jobs announcements recently but ON Semiconductor has bucked this trend. They have announced that they will be creating 49 new jobs in Shannon. The company designs and manufactures data and power management chips and other semiconductor components.

MENTOR GRAPHICS CREATES 35 NEW JOBS IN SHANNON

Good news for Shannon part 2. Mentor Graphics has announced that it will be creating 35 new jobs at its facility in the Shannon. The firm is in the business of Electronic Design Automation developing hardware and software for wireless communications and internet network servers and other markets. Mentor Graphics currently employs 80 staff in Shannon.

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After 6 months of negativity, recession talk and job loss announcements this post is like gold at the end of the rainbow. Three companies Duolog Technologies, Solaris Mobile and Digiweb have all made positive announcement which will create many new jobs particularly the IT / Technology sectors.

Duolog Technologies develops software for the chip design industry. It current employs 80 staff at the UCD Innovation Center and has a design center at Galway. The company is hoping to increase its revenue to EUR15m by next year which will mean a potential increase in headcount.

Digiweb has announced aggressive plans to recruit 40 new staff to support the rollout of 4G mobile broadband. This jobs are part of an overall recruitment increase of 200 staff planned by the company.

Solaris Mobile will create 50 new highly skilled jobs in Dublin. The company will locate its HQ in Dublin and is part of a joint venture. Solaris will be recruiting these staff over the next 3 years. The will be recruiting graduates with a knowledge of space, mobile and communications sectors.

Let’s hope that this announcement will bring a bit of sunshine back to the jobs market in Ireland.

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Business Objects will create 100 new jobs in Dublin as a result of a EUR29m investment. Business Objects will establish a R&D center in Citywest in Dublin. SAP bought Business Objects in January of this year so new jobs will be located at SAP’s facility in West Dublin.

These high value positions will be created over the next 4 years he next four years and they will be focus on new generation of performance optimisation applications. Jobs created will be for graduates and experienced IT professionals. IT roles will include IT architects, Software testers and programmers. There will also be a recruitment drive for engineers with Java, Eclipse, XML languages.

Business Objects & SAP currently employ over 1000 staff in Dublin & Galway. Business Objects set up in Dublin in 2004 and employs 200 of the 1000 staff.
This is some positive news for the government as these are they type of high-end jobs they have promised to deliver.

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Fujitsu Services will create 150 jobs in Northern Ireland as part of an Stg11 million investment. The jobs will be created in Derry and Belfast. 120 Jobs will be created at the new Applications Services Centre in Derry and a further 30 jobs will be created at Fujitsu’s Belfast operations. The new jobs will be created in areas such as technical support and application management. The announcement will bring the total number employees to over 900 in Northern Ireland.

The IT services company will invest Stg9 million and InvestNI will invest Stg2 million in the project. The latest investment follows previous investments of over Stg20 million in the last year creating over 400 jobs.

Northern Ireland is becoming increasingly attractive to investors seeking to expand into Europe and it has seen its fair share of multinational activity over the last few years. Many view this as lost opportunity for the South but I feel the Island as a whole is benefiting.

Retail Sector boom or over saturation?

Many experts are warning that the retail sector could be about to face some serious challenges as sales and footfall are declining BUT retail space is growing at an alarmingly high rate. It is expected that Dublin will miss out on things but other regions will struggle.

Major retail projects in Ireland

Dundrum Town Centre extension (Dublin) – 50,000 sq.m
Opera Centre (Limerick) – 37,160 sq.m
IKEA (Dublin) – 30,500 sq.m
Parkway Valley (Limerick) – 23,225 sq.m
Rockbrook, Sandyford (Dublin) – 21,467 sq.m
New Shopping Centre (Longford) – 20,000 sq.m
Brewery Centre (Waterford) – 20,000 sq.m
Academy Street SC (Cork) – 20,000 sq.m
Parkway Retail Centre (Limerick) – 19,821 sq.m
Laois Town Centre extension (Laois) – 19,680 sq.m

Retail Jobs – Cork, Limerick, Longford, Waterford, Laois & Dublin

If things pick up in the Retail Sector these locations will create a large volume of new jobs in the retail sector. What is great for potential employees in the sector is that these developments are spread across the country in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Laois, Longford. There will also be potential new jobs in what seem to be a great success – Dundrum Town Centre. I’d say I must be the only person yet to visit it BUT my wife makes up for that.

Retail Jobs – where to find them!!

If you are looking for work in the Retail Sector we did a previous post on retail centres and jobs. Many shopping centres now advertise jobs on their own website. I know Dundrum & Blanchardstown do BUT you might check out the above developments. Otherwise there are the usual job search strategies.

Tesco has announced plans to create over 1,200 jobs this year at 16 new stores across Ireland.

Tesco currently employs over 13,000 people in Ireland and the new jobs announcement is an indication of Tesco’s success. It is estimated that 1 euro of every 4 euro we spend on shopping in Ireland is lodged in a Tesco till. It has reported a 10% increase in sales to almost €3bn for the year to February.

Will this mean that they will be dropping their prices?

I doubt it BUT I did hear the Tesco CEO Ireland on the TV tonight and he did expect prices to drop. This is only because of the exchange rates.

Its looks like we could be eating ourselves out of a slump.